The program is tentative, and may be subject to changes.
12.02.2015: Lars Kristiansen
19.02.2015 Mathias Barra
26.02.2015 Mathias Barra
05.03.2015 Øystein Linnebo
12.03.2015 Sam Sanders
19.03.2015 Herman Ruge Jervell
26.03.2015 Herman Ruge Jervell
09.04.2015 Herman Ruge Jervell
16.04.2015 Lars Kristiansen
23.04.2015 Cancelled
30.04.2015 Dag Normann: Sequential functions of type level 2.
28.05.2015 Øystein Linnebo (see tittle and abstract below)
11.06.2015 Frode Bjørdal
May 28 Øystein Linnebo
Fregean categories and the problem of expressibility (joint with Bob Hale)
Abstract
Frege famously held that the ontological categories correspond to the
logico-syntactic types. For instance, something is an object just in
case it can be referred to by a singular term, and likewise for all
the other categories. This view faces an expressibility problem. In
order to express the view, we need to generalize across categories.
But by the view itself, any one variable can only range over a single
category. We provide a sharp formulation of the problem, show that
there is no easy way out, and then explore some of the hard ways.
Dag Normann